From Restaurants to Live Music - Your Ultimate Sydney Weekend Guide

Less than two weeks to Christmas 🎅, I hope you have your shopping for presents underway!

In this season of festivities, getting out and about before the family descend on your house is just what you need. I have assembled some great ideas and even one that you will need to get booked now despite it being at the end of the month.

1. Come as you are - Japanese style 🏯 

Come hang out for some of Sydney's loudest chef collabs, bottomless weekend feeds, and happy hours that'll blow your mind at Kid Kyoto.

The team at the Kid have a 4.3 star Google rating and clearly have it all sorted out. Saturday lunch is a bottomless Izakaya set menu for $75 which can be upgraded with beer and wine for an extra $10. Tuesday express “Trust Us” menu for $55. Happy hour Monday to Saturday 3 to 6pm.

If you haven’t yet organised your NYE then book at the Kid for their NYE set menu and drinks at $150 per person - book online via the website

2. Feeling naughty at the Courty? Yeah!

You have to be naughty at the “Courty” - The Courthouse Hotel in Newtown 🍻 

Having started trading in 1859 and celebrated as Newtown’s most loved beer garden, The Courty is a local fvourite for those lucky enough to reside in the inner west.

The Courty has Trivia on Thursday night, The Wheel of Pourtune on a Wednesday, Tuesday badge draws, happy hour Monday to Friday 4 - 6pm and everyday the “Courty Can O Nachos” - bloody unique and a must try 🌽 

A bit of trivia - the first Young Henry’s Newtowner was poured at the Courty back in 2012 🍺 

3. You wont be feeling lazy when you get jazzed up 🎷 

Ok so there is jazz some nights at the Lazybones Lounge Restaurant & Bar and a huge array of other music throughout the month including pop, indie pop, R&B, soul dub beats, reggae-pop, afro fusion and the list goes on.

The Lazybones has a big following of happy bopper rating it a 4.6 on Google. Christopher sums it up “… this place is really cool. If you're looking for something funky, different, high quality but not pretentious, check it out. Has a very authentic jazz lounge feel to it. Went for the love music on Tuesday night. Got entry and dinner for about $40pp(?) Food was good. Drinks were reasonably priced (for Sydney 🙄)…”

Check out the gig guide on the Lazybones website HERE

4. Big Bash League - Sixers V Renegades 🏏 

The Big Bash is full of excitement, especially when the Sydney Sixers go head to head with the Melbourne Renegades at the SCG.

Get your tickets for Monday night, 16th December 2024. Gates open at 5:45pm and the action starts at 7:15pm.

Tickets start at $30 for adults and $8 for kids 5 - 15 years. Book via Ticketek

5. After Christmas - 18 countries will compete, you cannot miss it 🎾 

For the lovers of Tennis there is nothing bigger on the Sydney and Perth tennis calendar than the United Cup.

The United Cup kicks off in Sydney on Saturday 28th December 2024 (Day 2) . There are 18 countries competing for total prize money of AUD 15 million. Australia is in Group F and will hit the court at 5:30pm on the Ken Rosewall Arena at Sydney Olympic Park.

Tickets can be purchased via Ticketmaster from $40 for adults.

Have a great weekend.

Cheers and beers,

Mick

Founder of Mick’s Five